Maurice Pialat – Cinema of Immediacy (August 31, 1925 – January 11, 2003)
Pialat from Under the Sun of Satan.
The Misunderstood Maurice Pialat (The New Yorker)
Harvard Edu Archive — Maurice Pialat, Cinema of Immediacy
(Gerard Depardieu and Sandrine Bonnaire in “Under the Sun of Satan”)
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L’enfamt Nue
Relentless vision of Maurice Pialat
Produced by Francois Truffaut. L’enfant nue was Pialat first feature film in 1969.
Nestor Almendros (A Man With a Camera) on Maurice Pialat
Pialat has purified his style in film after film, culminating in La Gueule Overte, which is totally stark. He systematically rejects the techniques and devices of what is called “cinema”; he will have no camera movements– no pans, no dollies, no zooms–preferring the camera to be motionless, glued to one spot. Neither will Pialat overedit, so his shots often last as long as the scene itself.
In this preference, Pialat is reminiscent of Bresson, but Pialat’s films are in every other way the antithesis of Bresson’s. As a director Bresson is hieratic in his stylization, while Pialat is only satisfied with complete naturalness.” (Page 119)
Movie sans frontier – Maurice Pialat
